Needle



(No Model.) 7 J.. WIESEGKBL.

NEEDLE.

' No. 487,040. Patented Now 29,1892.

WITNESSES: INVE N TOR aymkw v A77'0RNEYJ'.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WIESEOKEL, OF BROOKLYN, NElV YORK.

NEEDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 487,040, dated November 29, 1892.

Application filed September 26, 1892. $eria1N0. 446,879- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN WIESECKEL, of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have invented an Improved Needle, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a needle of peculiar construction having a conical eye for the reception and retention of a knot. Thus the needle can be secured to the very end of the thread and the latter need not be doubled up.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement more fully pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of the needle, showing it threaded. Fig. 2 is a similar view without the thread.

The letter a represents a needle having a transverse eye a of conical shape-that is to say, the eye a has a wide mouth and is thence contracted in the form of a funnel toward the other end.

In threading the needle a knot b is formed at the end of the thread b, and this knot will be bodily received within and retained by the conical eye. In this way the thread used need not be doubled at the end and may be entirely used up. The upper end of the needle isbeveled or tapered inwardly at the side a, where the contracted end of the eye opens. At the other side a the taper is considerably1ess,s0 that a sufficient body of metal is retained. Thus it will be seen that the thread merges at but one side of the needle and that at this side the needle is so tapered that the thread does not project beyond the needle. As the needle and thread are drawn through the fabric the thread will consequently not form an obstacle for the passage of the needle.

' Theadvantagesconnectedwithmyimproved needle are that it can be easily threaded, will pass freely through the fabric, will not lose the thread, and that it will permit the latter to be entirely used up.

What I claim is A needle provided with a beveled side and with a transverse tapering eye that opens with its reduced end upon the beveled side, substantially as specified.

JOHN WIESEOKEL.

Witnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, A. J ONGHMANS. 

